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14 overseas companies have been picked to receive advisory support for Japan IPOs.

Tokyo Stock Exchange seeks Asian unicorns to revive foreign listings | KrASIA

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Tokyo Stock Exchange seeks Asian unicorns to revive foreign listings

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

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Nikkei Asia

Deep Tech

Robotics

Beatbot is charging a premium for its pool-cleaning robots, and the hefty price tag isn't deterring buyers.

Can a USD 2,199 pool cleaning robot succeed in the US market? Beatbot is betting on it | KrASIA

Can a USD 2,199 pool cleaning robot succeed in the US market? Beatbot is betting on it

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network. Since 2010, 36Kr has been providing high-quality content around China’s innovation and new economy trends. With the traffic and network it has built, 36Kr has developed a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities of the technology landscape in China.

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Energy

In the wake of Typhoon Yagi’s impact on southern China’s power grid, attention is turning to the critical role of mobile energy storage solutions.

From disaster relief to household power: EcoFlow’s mobile energy storage gains momentum | KrASIA

From disaster relief to household power: EcoFlow’s mobile energy storage gains momentum

KrASIA | Insights Archives

Tokopedia is an Indonesian technology company, sometimes referred to as a unicorn. It was founded in 2009 by William Tanuwijaya and his Bestfriends from Harvard University, Michael Alexander.

Tokopedia

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. 

E-Commerce

Security

Indonesia's tech companies need to step up their security game, while the regulator has to be more stringent in protecting consumer data.

What can we learn from Tokopedia's alleged 91-million data leak? | KrASIA

What can we learn from Tokopedia&#8217;s alleged 91-million data leak?

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Khamila Mulia

Fintech is the new applications, processes, products, or business models in the financial services industry, composed of one or more complementary financial services and provided as an end-to-end process via the internet.

Fintech

The game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and its component parts employ thousands of people worldwide.

Gaming

In gaming, Tencent launched "Arena of Valor" to Middle East players while Play3arabi and China's Wafa Games partnered to arabize "Swords of Glory".

Disney+ and Warner Bros sign partnerships in the Middle East, and more | The Middle East Monthly Roundup | KrASIA

Disney+ and Warner Bros sign partnerships in the Middle East, and more | The Middle East Monthly Roundup

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Qadisha Group

Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth.

Venture Capital

Founded in 2019, the CVC firm wants to formulate partnerships between startups and MUFG's ecosystem.

Fintech was built to weather a crisis: MUFG Innovation Partners CEO on investing during the pandemic | KrASIA

Fintech was built to weather a crisis: MUFG Innovation Partners CEO on investing during the pandemic

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet and technology. 

Alibaba

JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese multinational investment holding conglomerate whose subsidiaries specialize in various Internet-related services and products, entertainment, artificial intelligence and technology both in China and globally.

Tencent

5G is a commonly used term for certain advanced wireless systems. Industry association 3GPP defines any system using "5G NR" software as "5G", a definition that came into general use by late 2018. 

Alibaba Cloud

cloud computing

cloud services

Cloud services are set to boom as e-commerce props up SMEs amid post-COVID-19 economic recovery.

Asia's post-virus economic revival to be built on the back of Chinese cloud services | KrASIA

Asia&#8217;s post-virus economic revival to be built on the back of Chinese cloud services

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AJ Cortese

Ant Financial Services Group, formerly known as Alipay, is an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group. Ant Financial is the highest valued fintech company in the world, and the world's most valuable unicorn company, with a valuation of US$150 billion. 

Ant Group

A blockchain, originally block chain, is a growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data.

Blockchain

blockchain

blockchain in China

cryptocurrency

China's BSN will greatly reduce the barrier to entry for firms looking to leverage blockchain technology and hopes to expand to include global SMEs.

China's public blockchain service network to increase accessibility for global SMEs | KrASIA

China&#8217;s public blockchain service network to increase accessibility for global SMEs

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. is a transportation network company based in Singapore. In addition to transportation, the company offers food delivery services via mobile app. It operates in the Southeast Asian countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. 

Grab

Many Indonesians are utilizing health tech platforms for the first time, and the habit may stick.

Indonesians might go ‘online first’ when seeking medical help from now on | KrASIA

Indonesians might go ‘online first’ when seeking medical help from now on

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Ursula Florene

Erel Margalit at an entrance to the JVP Media Quarter compound. Courtesy of JVP via NoCamels.

A look at Jerusalem Venture Partners' precautions shows us what precautions will be needed in the coming months.

JVP sets standard for safe return to work with 3D-printed face shields, robot assistant | KrASIA

JVP sets standard for safe return to work with 3D-printed face shields, robot assistant

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NoCamels

Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

China Tech

Meituan-Dianping is a Chinese group buying website for locally found food delivery services, consumer products and retail services. The company is headquartered in Beijing and was founded in 2010 by Wang Xing. The Meituan.com site offers deals of the day by selling vouchers on local services and entertainment.

Meituan

In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals.

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

Electric Vehicles

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

Transportation

Neolix develops autonomous transportation solutions for a variety of uses, from parcel delivery to mobile vending machines, and expects to break even in 2020.

Meet the company behind China's self-driving vending machines: Inside China's Startups | KrASIA

Meet the company behind China&#8217;s self-driving vending machines: Inside China&#8217;s Startups

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Song Jingli

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

An Alibaba insider shares the company’s efforts to transform remote working.

Alibaba wants to make remote work the new normal: Will it succeed? | KrASIA

Alibaba wants to make remote work the new normal: Will it succeed?

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Insights

What can we learn from Tokopedia’s alleged 91-million data leak?

Disney+ and Warner Bros sign partnerships in the Middle East, and more | The Middle East Monthly Roundup

Fintech was built to weather a crisis: MUFG Innovation Partners CEO on investing during the pandemic

Asia’s post-virus economic revival to be built on the back of Chinese cloud services

China’s public blockchain service network to increase accessibility for global SMEs